“So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time,” Biden tells bewildered Iowa crowd

2020

“We can’t bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways,” Biden said in a stump speech in Iowa. “One trick is to tell ’em stories that don’t go anywhere – like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. Give me five bees for a quarter.”